Changes To New Member Policy

A change has been put into place that will affect all new members as well as a minor change to all existing members. In the long run will keep the community safer and less prone to spammer attacks.

For all current members, if you go in to edit your profile settings, you will be asked to answer one additional question. The question is: Anti-Spam Question: Name the first Ted Dekker book you have read. You will be required to answer that before you can save your changes and exit your profile. Please answer it honestly and not with random characters or your account could accidentally be deleted.

Due to the onslaught of spam accounts we have received this week alone, all new members are required to be approved by The Administration staff, which includes myself and the moderation team. The signup process includes both a CAPTCHA as well as a couple of Anti-Spam measures that must be passed in order to be approved by a member of our team.

You may ask "How can I help?"

Thank you for asking. If, along your daily browsing of The Circle, you run across a spammer account that we missed, please alert the mods by clicking on The Big Red Button on the right margin of every page. Tell us the member name, or better yet, the URL of the member profile. We will take care of it as soon as humanly possible.

We apologize to anyone that ran across one of these spammers and hope that these new measures make our community more enjoyable for all legitimate members.